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  • They relate to her "Tourette's" series in which anxious-looking people perform the sort of impulsive activities that one might think about but never actually do taking a pair of scissors to one's eyelashes; scraping a surface clean with one's teeth.

    A Painter of Odd 'Situations' Gets a Retrospective—at 34 2011

  • I really appreciate the turnout, the slightly anxious-looking Carney joked at the outset.

    New White House press secretary takes stage 2011

  • Soon, the liberal group Americans United for Change put up a billboard over Highway 29 in his northwestern Wisconsin district showing an anxious-looking elderly woman saying, "Please, Congressman Duffy, don't privatize my Medicare."

    Debt Debate Puts GOP Freshmen in Fix Naftali Bendavid 2011

  • Soon, the liberal group Americans United for Change put up a billboard over Highway 29 in his northwestern Wisconsin district showing an anxious-looking elderly woman saying, "Please, Congressman Duffy, don't privatize my Medicare."

    Debt Debate Puts GOP Freshmen in Fix Naftali Bendavid 2011

  • One anxious-looking resident clutched a long-haired dachshund to her chest and paced up and down the hallway.

    'My Grandson Is Here' Eric Bellman 2011

  • Men dragged clothes and everything else they could carry in bundles of bedsheets; women guided anxious-looking young children by the hand as they climbed the metal plank and entered one of the Chinooks.

    U.S. builds goodwill with quick assistance in Pakistani flooding 2010

  • Pinky, Ronda, and Tony sat at the rear with their lawyer, Pagal, a middle-aged Filipino man with a lined, anxious-looking face, who kept his worn briefcase on his lap.

    Beard 2010

  • An anxious-looking little girl trotted at her heels.

    The girlhood of a Guardian columnist 2006

  • This was during his "black oak period," when he painted portraits and group portraits of people standing before a massive Louisiana oak, and before he got into his kitschier and incredibly successful "blue dog period," creating hundreds of paintings and silkscreens featuring a rather anxious-looking spaniel.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • This was during his "black oak period," when he painted portraits and group portraits of people standing before a massive Louisiana oak, and before he got into his kitschier and incredibly successful "blue dog period," creating hundreds of paintings and silkscreens featuring a rather anxious-looking spaniel.

    Legends of the Waiter, Part III Walter Jon Williams 2007

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